Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
NIELS BOHRTruth and clarity are complementary.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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No paradox, no progress.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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